(CN) — Scientists announced Friday they have used genome sequencing to uncover the earliest known evidence of humans breeding hybrid animals. According to research published in the journal Science ...

A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and paleontologists believes they’ve settled the identity of an enigmatic equid from ancient Mesopotamia. That animal is a kunga, which the researchers show was ...

What do you call a hybrid created when a grizzly bear and a polar bear mate? The answer might soon be common knowledge, as climate change has pushed these two species of bears together. As a result, ...

A research team has proposed inbred-parent–based hybrid cassava breeding to overcome the challenges of heterozygous parent use, aiming to transform cassava breeding by purging deleterious mutations ...

From mules to ligers, the list of human-made hybrid animals is long. And, it turns out, ancient. Meet the kunga, the earliest known hybrid animal bred by people. The ancient equine from ...

A jaguar lion hybrid is most commonly called a jaglion. The name itself is a blend of its parents, a jaguar and a lion. This hybrid is extremely rare and exists only under artificial conditions, ...